EU release played via Steam on a Lenovo Y50-70.

The Walking Dead: Season One really hit the video-game landscape at exactly te right time. Point and click games had been dead in the water for quite a number of years, despite Telltale's own attempts at the genre, but securing the rights to make a game within the universe of the (then) incredibly popular tv series of TWD, alongside having an incredibly well-written script was the shot in the arm this company, and by extent this genre, needed.

I won't go into this game too much - it's puzzles, story, and even soundtrack have all been (deserrvedly) highly-lauded for nearly a decade now - but I will argue it's probably one of the most important video-games of its era, setting a new standard for story-telling within the medium and garning attention of an audience that wouldn't normally play games, let alone point and click ones.

Reviewed on Oct 14, 2021


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